Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-12-10

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great audience of SHINING, suffering
and dying men, and told them of nc
rescue. BY the cross of the Son Of
God, by the throne of the eternal judg
ment, that shall not be! May the Lord
Jesus help me TO tell you the truth TO.
day!
You know the carrier pigeons have
sometimes letters tied under the wing.
and they fly hundreds of milestone
hundred miles in an hour-carrying q
message, So have thought / would
like TO have it now. On, heavenly
dove! bring under thy wing to-day, 10
my sou! and TO the souls Of this people,
some messages Of light, and love, and
peace!
IL IS not On unusual thing 10 see peo-
pie gather around "A well Ia summer
tune. The husbaudman puts down his
cradle at the well curb. The builder
puts down his trowel. The Traveller
puts down his pack. Then one draws
the water for M the rest, himself TAX
ing the very last. The cup is passed
around, and the fires Of thirst are put
out; the traveller starts on bis journey,
and the workman takes up his burden.
THE GOSPEL WELL.
Ny friends. we come to-day around
the gospel well. We put down our
pack of burdens, and our implements
Of toll. One man must draw the water
for those who have gathered around
the well, | will try and draw the wa
ter to-day; and if, after | have poured
out from this living fountain for your
soul, justtaste OF it myself, you will
not begrudge me a drink from the
water Of the well Of Bethlehem, which
is by the gate"
This gospel well, like the well spoken
OF IN the text, is a well OF Bethlehem.
David haI known hundreds Of wells of
water, bat he wanted to drink from
that particular one, and he thought
nothing could Stake his thirst like that.
And unless your soul and mine can get
access to the fountain open for sin and
u~ncleanness, we must die. That foun-
tain is the well of Bethlehem. 1t was
dug in the night. 1t was dug by the
AASH ~ w " "a h-~lbN oltAt lItbI bAl2I
down over the manager. 1t was dug not
At the gate of Cssar's palaces, not in
the park Of a
JERUSALEM
bargainmaker. 1t was dug in a barn.
The camels lifted their weary heads to
listen as the work went on. The
shepherds, unable to sleep, because the
heavens were filled with bands Of mu-
sic, came down to see the opening of
the well. The angels Of God, at the
first gush Of the living water, dipped
their chalices of JOY into it, and drank
TO the health of earth and heaven, rs
they cried, GLORY to God in the high
est, and on earth peace" Sometimes
in our modern barns the water is
brought through the pipes of the city
to the very n~ostrils Of the horses or
but this well in the Bethlehem
barn was not SO much for the beasts
that perish as for our race thirst-smit-
ten, desert-trsveled and simeon struck.
On, my soul, weary with sin, stoop
down and drink to-day out of that
well!
"As the hart panteth after the water
brooks, Sc my soul panteth after thee,
o God" You would get better I'M
.derstanding of this amidst the Adirou-
in summer time. Here comes n
swift. footed deer. The hounds are
on the track; it has leaped chasms
and scaled cliffs; it is tagged out; lis
eyes are rolling in death; its tongue is
from It's foaming mouth. Faster
the deer, faster the dogs, until it
plunges into
sCHRooN LAKE
and the hounds can follow it no farth-
er, and it puts down its head and
mouth until the nestril is clean sub
merged in the cool wave, and | under-
it: .'As the hart panteth for the
water-brook. so panteth my soul for
thee, . God" Oh, bring me water
that well! Little child who has
learned of Jesus in the Sabbath school,
bring me some Of that living water.
Old man, who fifty years ago didst find
the well, br .ng me some of that water.
Stranger IN a strange land, who used
to hear sung amidst the highlands of
Scotland, To the tune of Bonnie
The Star, the Star Of Beth.
bring noe some of that water.
Whoever drinketh Of that water shall
never thirst. "Oh that one would give
me drink Of the water of the well Of
Bethlehem, which is by the gate"
Again, this Gospel well, like the one
Of in the text, is a captured
well. David remembered the time
when that good water Of Bethlehem
was In the possession OF his ancestors.
His father drank there, his mother
drank there. He remembered how the
water tasted when he was n boy. and
came mp there from play. We never
the old well we used to drink
out of when we were boys or girls.
was something in it that blessed
the lips and refreshed the brow better
than anything we have found since. As
we think Of that dear cid well, the
memories of the past flow into each
other like crystalline drops, snn-glint-
and 81 the more as we remember
the hands that used to lay hold of
the rope, aud the hearts that beat
the weli-curb are still now.
We never pet over these "reminiscences